What are your thoughts on competitive travelling, visiting as many countries, provinces, world heritage sites etc. as possible? Do you participate in it or know someone who does it? What are competitive travellers like?

I have collected 69 world heritage sites

I use Nomad Mania for it. I don't like the "competitive" element, but the detailed recording makes my autism happy

>>2789247 (OP)
sounds like some really retarded faggot shit to be honest my dude

'competitive traveling' just saying that make me laugh

Competitive eskimo bros

>>2789247 (OP)
how is this measured?

also most likely horseshit
because it encourages the shitty mass bus tour tourism
where you get dropped off at 4 sights / day and just completely blockade / crowd a small part of the city

i visit a lot of the UNESCO world heritage sites (cultural as well as natural ones)
and not only the official ones, often the tentative list ones (younger or poorer countries will have fewer sites)
but mostly because it's good orientation on the coolest, most worthwhile spots in a country
but I rarely stay less than 2nights at one spot

>>2789247 (OP)
Some people heckin' love airplanes, so they jump around the map a lot. It's an expensive pastime, and one which limits you to visiting the most globally homogenized and overvisited places on Earth, i.e. destinations with international airports.
>>2789248
As a descendant of peasants and barbarians, I don't go out of my way to commingle with the "cultured" tourist crowds gawking at Notre Dame and Angkor Wat and the Sphinx and the Mayan pyramids. Gawking is a big racket, and the hive-mind element is strong among the gawkers.
>If nobody spends a bunch of money and time to see X, well then, X must not be worth seeing.
This herd mentality is the driver behind mass tourism. Much as they complain about the crowds, everyone wants to feel like they're a part of some phenomenon which is much bigger than themselves.
>>2789276
Two nights is the perfect length of stay, because it gives you a full 24 hour period of freedom from the routine moving to a new place. The biggest plus of staying longer than two nights, IMO, is being better able to suss out the good restaurants instead of picking a place to eat at random (which frequently results in disappointment and/or excessive spending). But longer stays inevitably mean less country covered.

I tried to be one but my job is too lame, they won't let me take enough days off

I don't think I would enjoy hanging out with most of these people.
>>2789347
>not being into turboprop tourism

Apparently I've been to 30 world heritage sites. I don't think its very helpful as a measure because I've been to some places that I'm astounded aren't listed, and there are some things on the list which aren't all that exciting, at least from a tourists perspective.

As for seeing as much as possible, there is a balance between seeing something and experiencing something. Unless you're one of those people who never stop moving so your life is just travelling, I'd expect someone who has been to over 150 countries is probably just having layovers rather than getting to know the destination.

>>2789247 (OP)
I don't really compete with anyone, but I do take into account things like UNESCO world heritage sites, NomadMania regions etc. It feels that you've seen the country better if you'd been to many regions rather than just the main city.
Sometimes if it's not too much hassle I can go out of the way to visit a region. For example, I visited Balochistan in Pakistan by going to the town of Hub which is across the river from Karachi.

>>2789247 (OP)
what constitutes a visit?
each country, province, heritage site should have some qualifiers how many points they get for what was accomplished in each country.

stepping foot in a popular western tourist country for 1 day should not be equal points to stepping foot in a isolasionist dicatorship for one day.
a country with a large landmass, many different unique regions should have potential to achieve more points than a small country.

tho i think the idea overall is dumb in practice, still would like clarity on the rules to make sense

>>2793696
Which ones in particular are you astounded are not listed? The one that immediately comes to mind to me is Santorini/Mykonos

I didn't even know this shit existed

>>2793822
>stepping foot in a popular western tourist country for 1 day should not be equal points to stepping foot in a isolasionist dicatorship for one day
Spending one day in the Vatican Museums absolutely dies leave you more cultured and worldly than taking a flight to Afghanistan to make a shitty vlog for attention